Forde also ranked Oklahoma State’s win over TCU as this season’s third best win among contenders and OU’s victory over Tennessee as the ninth best win. The Bears fell to the Sooners 44-34, their first loss to Oklahoma since 2012.
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Lanning had helped keep Iowa State ahead for most of the game, running for two touchdowns and passing for another.
Iowa State travels to Kansas State next Saturday. So they leaned heavily on Ezekiel Elliot, who ran for 181 yards and two scores. The first came in the closing minutes of the third quarter, a complete misread of KD Cannon’s route, allowing Zack Sanchez to catch the ball without trouble. That’s what we can control.
Eventually, Stidham relayed that news that he was still sore with deep back bruises but an MRI taken Sunday was negative.
It began when players tweeted their support for a student-activist group concerned about a series of racist incidents, and said they would boycott the game against the Cougars unless the university system president resigned.
It’s been embarrassing for an Oklahoma program built on defense and explosive offenses. Golson had turnovers on three of five drives and finished 5 of 9 for 52 yards and two interceptions. “We’ve just come together and grown as a team and realized that we’re never going to get down on each other, and to always fight back”.
“In my mind, I thought two touchdowns in the second half would win the game“, Rhoads said.
Or maybe we should have embraced a true freshman quarterback in his second career start in a game of this magnitude was going to have problems.
UCLA lost after leading at halftime for the first time in 32 games under Mora. The failed Baylor run game left an injured Stidham to carry the team, where he would falter as well.
“We’ve done pretty well running the football this year”.
On defense, the Bears were tremendous at applying pressure in the backfield.
Oklahoma center Ty Darlington called the Sooners’ triumph “a definite legacy game…to turn the tide back and restore things to their rightful order” in the Big 12.
Baker Mayfield forced himself into the national conversation for the Heisman Trophy on Saturday by throwing for 270 yards and three touchdowns in a stirring road victory over Baylor.
Senior Morgan Burns recorded a school-record 221 yards with one touchdown on kickoff returns at Texas Tech.
“We have to limit our penalties. Ever since then, we’ve just been grinding it out”.
But Baylor’s Travon Blanchard was flagged for a horse-collar tackle giving Oklahoma new life. The Sooners would eventually score, effectively ending the game. “We need to show resilience and toughness”. “But that’s just part of it, and today I’m feeling a lot better”.
After the Oklahoma touchdown, Stidham would throw his second interception to end the game. That he was willing and able to find the right people to move the chains with short passes is significant for a strong-armed passer who has been successful finding receivers down the field.
West Virginia (5-4, 2-4, next game Saturday @ Kansas) – Excellent defensive effort with five takeways shunted Texas and provided the boost to get the Mountaineers a key win for their bowl hopes.
In the case of the Big 12, and especially after Saturday’s games, I have to wonder if not having a conference title game might keep the league from fielding a playoff representative for the second straight year.
It was quite striking to see: Baylor’s first drives in each half were country strolls, easy jogs to the end zone with OU defenders barely breathing on the Bears. Baylor’s actual situation will probably become starkly evident when the CFP rankings are released Tuesday.
Players were reminded that the Bears haven’t won in Stillwater since 1939.
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So beating Baylor? Yeah, it was big for the Sooners’ psyche and recruiting down the line, but it officially revived playoff hopes once left for dead.
